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kiimo posted:My end goal is my side business taking off enough that I can quit my studio job. That plan keeps me going. In the meantime getting paid from both is nice. The worst corporate business thing I did when I was younger without thinking about the consequences was when I had an awful--but not as awful as theirs--job listening to customer service calls after the fact to see if they did their job. I just noted a guy who was on his break took a call and noted 'this is not relevant, he's just working on his own thing.' And that got the guy fired somehow. Like, gently caress. I got fired by myself too I guess because that was not a thing I was willing to keep doing. ACAB at least once included me.
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I have two cell phones and two laptops and no land line but I guess they could probably read everything I type on the guest wifi but also I don't think they care enough to go that far on people. I'm basically on call every hour of my day, in the last two weeks I had exactly TWO uninterrupted "quiet hours" so firing me for working on something else while working is basically a matter of philosophy at this point. Also everyone has a side hustle even the execs here.
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I love coffee but I limit myself to one maaaaybe 2 cups a day. It's an expensive habit.
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Braksgirl posted:I love coffee but I limit myself to one maaaaybe 2 cups a day. It's an expensive habit. How? A $12 bag of coffee beans lasts me like a month. I'm a one cup per day guy tho.
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kiimo posted:I have two cell phones and two laptops and no land line but I guess they could probably read everything I type on the guest wifi but also I don't think they care enough to go that far on people. At my previous job, I frequently worked a second job while on the clock for my actual job for the entire four years that I was there. Like you, they either never noticed or never cared enough to call me out on it. If this thread has taught me anything, it's that IT professionals are too over-worked and jaded to go out of their way if no one is causing a security problem with such activities  If only our economic system didn't incentivize double-dipping in order to get ahead (the money I made doing this went exclusively into paying off my student loans) but hey what do I know.
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Oct 10, 2023 03:00
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I drink between 1-3 cups of tea a day. Coffee is my “gently caress, I feel like poo poo, gotta wake up” option. And then I generally only have one cup/latte/mocha/whatever.
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Oct 10, 2023 03:08
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I drink waaay too much coffee every day but honestly a big steaming cup of black coffee on a work morning is like maybe my favorite thing on earth.
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Love me some coffee. I think most of it is having a hot drink to help wake me up because caffeine really doesn’t do a ton for me. I don’t take it super seriously and just eye ball it, but sometimes I just happen to get it just right and get that “drat that’s a good rear end cup of coffee” morningBraksgirl posted:I love coffee but I limit myself to one maaaaybe 2 cups a day. It's an expensive habit. Yeahhh, I had my favorite $7.99 store brand coffee I loved that I was rocking for like 2 years and now it’s like $10.99 on sale. Now I’m on that Aldi poo poo. I do a French press a day which is like 2.5-3 cups depending on the mug and a bag lasts me about a week. Also we popped into our local tea shop, we don’t really do tea, but I got this Vienna Breakfast black tea and that poo poo is delicious.
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Oct 10, 2023 03:14
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Today I had a cup of coffee, a Celcius before hitting the gym, an almond milk pumpkin spice latte as there's a Starbucks next to work, and then a cherry Coke Zero. I think I should just do crack. In other news:  Stir fried some beef & veggies. Roasted some purple cauliflower too to replace the rice.
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Oct 10, 2023 03:23
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kiimo posted:triple espresso iced vanilla latte no sweetener I don't care if it's fru fru I loving love it this is practically my afternoon drink at the shop by work, triple iced americano with a shot of vanilla and a splash of half and half it's called a taylor swift.
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Before kids my favorite time was waking up on a Sunday morning when it is cool out, sipping a cup of coffee and puttering around the house for like 5 hours until my wife woke up. Now I am still up 5 hours before my wife is up, but so are the kids so it is not relaxing at all.
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I’m high and made a Dutch Baby for first time cause the kids were watching the Christmas episode of Bobs Burgers where they get run down by the candy cane truck. Linda saying Dutch Baby over and over planted something in my head.
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Oct 10, 2023 03:34
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a neat cape posted:I loving guzzle Pure Leaf Unsweetened tea. It's a problem. It really is the best, isn't it? I loved using it to both hydrate me and microdose my caffeine throughout the day. Gold Peak loving sucks.
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I really like coffee and drink anywhere between 2 - 5 cups throughout the day. iced coffee for most of the year because of how hot it is here in austin, drip in the colder months. And the few days a week I work out of a coffee shop I'll also drink a cortado -- the best way to drink coffee imo. I'll also put in a grinds pouch on the evenings that I'm in the pottery studio. One of the few things I miss about being a smoker is enjoying a cigarette with coffee to start the day. Neil Armbong fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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I love tea, drank it British style with milk for 30 years. Also love coffee, I make myself a half caf latte with breakfast every day. Thai tea is just black tea with vanilla and food coloring added, btw, so it's easy to make if you have that at home. I like to make it with condensed milk, it doesn't take much to get the right milky sweetness
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Oct 10, 2023 04:39
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Cup of tea or a cuppa is pretty common out here. I switched to tea for over a year when I first quit caffeine but my schedule of getting up at 5 to work out got me crawling back. I just try not to go crazy and avoid any caffeine after 12 though.
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Maybe have had 5 cups of coffee over my entire lifetime Tea tho. Twice a week minimum
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the smell of coffee and the taste of coffee is one of the widest gaps I can think of, for me. Tastes like sewer water but goddamn it smells heavenly
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If coffee tasted half as good as it smells it'd still taste pretty bad.
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Hot coffee, I can take or leave. But iced coffee is heaven in a glass.
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Coffee does not actually have to taste bitter but unfortunately most coffee is made badly and the bitterness is then masked with sugar and or cream/milk. Also default coffee is dark roast which is the most likely to have a burnt flavor. It's not the right thing to introduce someone to coffee imo.
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Oct 10, 2023 08:18
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Leperflesh posted:Coffee does not actually have to taste bitter but unfortunately most coffee is made badly and the bitterness is then masked with sugar and or cream/milk. I always liken it to beer. They're all in the same ball park but there's pretty marked differences and if you get a poo poo one your first go round you might not be a fan.
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greetings from the land of tea, green tea is great (and I try to use that straight/unsweetened instead of more sugary stuff, whether bottled or out at restaurants) and we do Barley tea a lot cold around the house with meals. That one is caffeine free and we just drop a teabag into a 1 liter pitcher of water and you're good to go. A bougie Singaporean tea brand is one of the splurges my wife likes to make, they do a lot that's great hot or cold. Coffee is wonderful, I need to French press more regularly. Might be time to get beans again. Sugar free Red Bull is for emergency uses, which have happened more recently since the baby likes to get me up at 5 am or so and my wife never gets up for that early shift.
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Barley tea is pretty OP. I was introduced to it by my sister's ex and it's a nice non-caffeinated option. I like it warm but I can dig it for those that drink it cold. Meanwhile it's 4am PST and I'm up for no drat reason, so guess I'm doubling down on caffeine around 1pm today. 
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Lifting weights and drinking coffee ama
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FizFashizzle posted:Lifting weights and drinking coffee ama Hot or cold? I drink a cup of coffee just before hitting the gym and IMO it's the best pre-workout for me.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Hot or cold? I drink a cup of coffee just before hitting the gym and IMO it's the best pre-workout for me. Hot natch. Especially with fall hitting WNC like a freight train.
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a neat cape posted:the smell of coffee and the taste of coffee is one of the widest gaps I can think of, for me. My wife is in the same boat and she's become a tea nerd. Wth is a "rooibos" anyway? About 10 years ago I started getting heart palpitations when I had a lot of caffeine and I'm fairly certain it had something to do with stress from my job/being overworked but I avoid caffeine now. Decaf isn't as good and doesn't come in anywhere near the variety of regular.  On the plus side, I chatted about Zelda with the dude behind the counter at the convenience store I stop by for my cup every morning and dude just says "no, yeah were good," if he sees I only have a cup of coffee. Quiet Feet fucked around with this message at 14:08 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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Rooibos is herbal tea, it's got a somewhat similar flavor to black tea so it's used as a non-caffeinated substitute a lot of the time
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All y’all’s talk about tea made me drink some sleepy time tea before bed and I slept like a rock
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Leperflesh posted:Thai tea is just black tea with vanilla and food coloring added, btw, so it's easy to make if you have that at home. I like to make it with condensed milk, it doesn't take much to get the right milky sweetness You're the second person I've seen recently who claims that Thai tea has food coloring, but we've never had to color it at home and it still takes on an orange appearance after brewing. I'll try to look at the leaves we use for it. Maybe they just dye and flavor it in stores. harperdc posted:Coffee is wonderful, I need to French press more regularly. Might be time to get beans again. Sugar free Red Bull is for emergency uses, which have happened more recently since the baby likes to get me up at 5 am or so and my wife never gets up for that early shift. Sup SFRB bud. I like the taste of sugar-free more than regular and I'm not entirely sure why.
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C-Euro posted:Sup SFRB bud. I like the taste of sugar-free more than regular and I'm not entirely sure why. in the summer, when my little one decided to keep waking up over the night and I got absolute awful sleep, I kept rotating between regular and sugar free Red Bulls, and it was the regular one that gave me a bit too much of a kick for whatever reason. taste is fine for me, maybe a bit cut compared to the fully leaded version, but it's the effects I'm more worried about. Grozz Nuy posted:Rooibos is herbal tea, it's got a somewhat similar flavor to black tea so it's used as a non-caffeinated substitute a lot of the time yep, we did it a fair bit when the missus was pregnant and was avoiding caffeine, and I'll also drink (bottled, cold) rooibos sometimes as well. not a bad option. also forgot this the first time but that orange Thai milk tea is amazing.
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Make coffee with an Aeropress to cut down on the bitterness.
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Leperflesh posted:Also default coffee is dark roast which is the most likely to have a burnt flavor. It's not the right thing to introduce someone to coffee imo. Yeah, and it’s frustratingly difficult going to the literal half-aisle long wall of coffee at the grocery store and 98% of it is dark or medium roast, and of the 5 light roast options, 3 are pre-ground. And going to an actual coffee shop is just out of the question, I’m not paying $20 for a bag of coffee that has like 10 cups worth of beans. a sexual elk posted:I’m high and made a Dutch Baby for first time cause the kids were watching the Christmas episode of Bobs Burgers where they get run down by the candy cane truck. Linda saying Dutch Baby over and over planted something in my head. Hell yeah, Dutch Babies rule Not you Max Verstappen
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T-Square posted:Hell yeah, Dutch Babies rule Not you Max Verstappen Hahaha. Just had some coffee, food, and Tylenol to attempt to stave off the side effects from getting both the COVID and flu shots yesterday. I have a fifth date tonight with a woman who gets up at like 6:30 every day without an alarm and never drinks coffee, and I am flabbergasted
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Hot Diggity! posted:Make coffee with an Aeropress to cut down on the bitterness. I love my little Aeropress, probably wouldn’t suit if anyone else in the house drank coffee but it’s such good quality for so little effort. I’m drinking an Americano right now!
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I’d like to work my job that I dislike maybe 10 more years and then maybe find something a bit more relaxed if there’s a world or a self left by then.
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opposable thumbs.db posted:Hahaha. I'm up stupid early (usually 5-6am) before my alarm goes off. I just surmised that when my brain starts working it goes "Oh? We're awake? Have all this adrenaline in your system!" Then I'm out of bed like a rocket. The coffee I have in the morning is for when the adrenaline wears off but I still need that pre-workout power when I go to the gym.
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I splurged on an espresso machine last year and then got a nice grinder as a Christmas present. Nothing like a cortado or macchiato to kick the day off
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